Thy Will, Not Mine

Chapter {7} Destiny

"The research is due next week. Failure to submit on time will lead to an instant fail," Mr Heywood said. I quickly scrambled to write down what he had said, not because I didn't have a book to get the information from but because the big words inside caused my head to spin. That's why I had to write everything down.

"The information is in the textbook," Nio chuckled. We were sitting next to each other because I came to the realization that he was not the problem, but I was, and I needed to guard my thoughts at all times as Philippines 4:8 said:

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things.

So, I had no right to put all the blame on him.

"Hello, Earth to Destiny," he said, waving his hand in front of my face, pulling me from my thoughts. I blushed as I watched his mirth-covered eyes look over at my shy ones.

"Uhm, yeah. I'm on Earth," I replied, feeling stupid for my response, out of everything I could say, did I have to say that?

A deep, velvety laugh startled me. Nio had the most beautiful laugh that I felt a laugh of my own ramble from my chest like some sort of trigger from his contagious laugh. Many heads turned to look at us as we laughed, the looks we had varied from amusement to confusion to anger?

The girl that I had learned was Samantha looked angry and hurt. She viciously grabbed her sparkly pink bag resembling her princess pink outfit before storming out of the class. A short brunette followed her out as well, running after her. Murmurs broke out as people whispered about what had just occurred.

"Silence!" Mr Heywood barked out, and the class fell into pin-drop silence, with the occasional turning of pages.

"What happened?" I eventually whispered out to Nio, who just shrugged in answer giving his textbook his undivided attention and I got the message loud and clear, he did not want to talk about what had formerly taken place.

An hour passed by and neither of them made an appearance. The clock tower chimed, making me worry. But I had already said a short prayer for them, and I was sure that the Lord would watch over them.

"Bye," I said to Nio as I strapped my bag onto my shoulders and took my textbook.

"Bye, amore," he said more enthusiastically with a dazzling smile. It seemed like he had forgotten about the entire incident, and I didn't want to seem too meddlesome, although I was still bothered. I smiled back at him and left the class.

Walking to another class, my eyes and ears were focused on the buzz and swarming people I was yet to know, but I knew that the Lord knew. Sometimes it just amazed me how the Lord knew everyone on Earth, all seven billion people. How he knew all our likes and dislikes, our joyful and mourning times, our sickness and health times, it was simply amazing! What was even more amazing was that He did it because he wanted to, because He desired to know us and have a relationship with us. What an amazing God we serve!

These thoughts got me thinking about how Samantha must've felt really angry about what she had seen, inconsolable even but in truth, she could cast all her worries and anxieties unto the Lord and He would make her yoke lighter, take away all that bugging her. How I wished I could tell Samantha all that was weighed down on my heart by the Holy Spirit but being the timid girl I was, prevented me from preaching the Word to all four corners of the world. It was during these times when I was left puzzled thinking about how I could speak to anyone about anything else, just not God, but this would not continue! The Lord had given me all the power and authority to preach the Word and fight against all powers and principalities.